Some Delightful Diversions
Dust-to-Digital
Label releasing high quality reissues of rare, essential 78rpm recordings with detailed texts describing the artists and their works.
Secret Museum of the Air (WFMU)
The sweet sounds of mankind, lovingly captured and presented here through the miracle of 78 RPM recording. Includes archives of past programs.
Nipperhead
A great online resource with lots of information, audio, images, and other stuff for collector geeks.
Poor Man's Electric Cylinder Phonograph
How to build one at home.
Antique Record Machines
Articles by Tim Gracyk, author of Popular American Recording Pioneers: 1895-1925, and a number of his friends.
Dismuke's Virtual Talking Machine
Lots of audio files
American Gramophone & Wireless Co.
Tons of cassette compilations of early cylinder and disk recordings
The Victor and Victrola Page
All about the Victrola
The Phonograph Web Ring
Miserable Music (1916-1941)
Nearly an hour's worth of all-American songs of murder, hatred, disaster, debauchery, and betrayal.
American Memory Collection
Thousands of audio recordings, digitized films, and other curios made freely available by the Library of Congress.
Smithsonian Folkways